Aravind Srinivas.

Aravind Srinivas is the Co-Founder and CEO of Perplexity AI, the AI-powered answer engine that has emerged as one of the most prominent challengers to Google's dominance in search.

Srinivas co-founded Perplexity in 2022 with Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, and Andy Konwinski, building a search product that uses large language models to provide direct, cited answers to complex questions. Perplexity has grown to over 100 million monthly queries and has been valued at over $9 billion, raising funding from Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, and Institutional Venture Partners. Before Perplexity, Srinivas worked as a research scientist at OpenAI and DeepMind, and interned at Google Brain. Born in India, he earned his PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley. Perplexity's rapid growth has made it the most credible AI-native alternative to traditional web search, attracting both consumer users and enterprise customers including major corporations. Srinivas has been named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 and Time's 100 Most Influential People in AI. His creation of a viable AI alternative to Google search-in a market many believed was unassailable-makes him one of the most ambitious AI entrepreneurs of the current era.